Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
3.8
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
47016
Points per Word
0.000128
Description
On a Louisiana plantation, Davia, a thirteen-year-old Wisconsin girl, encounters the ghost of a young nineteenth-century Creole relative and comes to terms with her fears about her mother's cancer while helping to provide hospice care for her great-aunt.